Speaker 1: Well, The Hill dot Com is reporting, and Democrats are
Speaker 1: grappling with how to learn the right lessons from Trump selection.
Speaker 1: They're trying to figure out how to avoid taking the
Speaker 1: wrong lessons into the next presidential race. Joe Trippy, who
Speaker 1: ran Howard Dean's failed campaign, says Hillary could have won
Speaker 1: if just a small number of voters in key states
Speaker 1: have voted the other way. So Trippy warns that making
Speaker 1: big changes could be dangerous. He said, everybody can point
Speaker 1: to something that went wrong and they're right. Since lots
Speaker 1: of things did go wrong, it makes it impossible to
Speaker 1: know what the party really needs to do now. Adding
Speaker 1: to the Democrat woes, they don't have a clear leader
Speaker 1: once Obama leaves office other than him. Democrats worry that
Speaker 1: if they try to appeal to the rust belt votes
Speaker 1: to put Trump over the top, they risk alienating their
Speaker 1: black and Hispanic base. The right lessons Democrats could learn
Speaker 1: are obvious. For instance, how about putting aside identity politics
Speaker 1: and embracing policy is good for everybody, Or how about
Speaker 1: abandoning class warfare and the big government welfare state mentality
Speaker 1: in favor of policies that would grow the economy for everybody.
Speaker 1: But grapple as they might, they will not learn the
Speaker 1: right lessons because they will never in a million years
Speaker 1: admit the truth. Their problem is liberalism, and they are liberals.
Speaker 1: They're doomed, they are forever doomed. Hopefully m